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Saturday, 31 May 2014

I have another Crazy 4 Challenges card for you today - this time using the theme of 'School's Out' - and your plans for the summer... my plans (after I have finished running a camp for a bunch of girls from my church) are to go to France, and spend some time at the beach - reading, picnicking and surfing!

The wave die is from the Stamps of Life, and the Birthday die is by Marianne Designs.

I am really into stamping images onto patterned paper at the moment, then adding some detail with Copic pens. Here I used mainly Simple Stories' Vintage Bliss papers, and a very pretty floral one - Crate Paper's Close Knit 'Seamstress'.

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

The Designer Challenge for the Elizabeth Craft Design Team this month, is to create a flat card - as in no Pop-ups this time!

I used a linen textured background card, and made a blue frame using the Oval Flourish Frame Edge dies.

I used the Oval Accordion Card die to create the inner coral oval, by snipping off the tabs which attach it to the rest of the panel.

I cut four rose leaves from the Rose die set, and in the top left hand corner, layered two of these with a Tim Holtz Crinkle Ribbon bow (which I coloured in with the same Copic pen as I used for the central roses.)

For my sentiment, I stuck a die cut 'Hello' onto a small rectangle of clear acetate with a glue pen, and then glued this to the bow. (I thought the acetate would make the word die cut a bit more stable.)

For the centre of the card, I used a Roses in Oval peel-Off Sticker, coloured it with Copic pens and cut out by hand.

Lastly, I added the other two rose leaves, and a layered butterfly in the bottom right hand corner, and a tiny layered butterfly (from the Butterfly Pivot Card set) to the top left.

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Hello! Here's a card of mine, and the tutorial for it, which are on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today. I really liked these gift peel-offs, and combined them with glitter and Copic colouring, in a pop-up card...

Directions:

1. Cut a piece of bright pink cardstock to approx. 10.5'' x 4.5''. Put a crease across the middle.

2. Cut a piece of pale pink cardstock to approx. 4 3/8'' x 6''. Put a crease across the middle.

3. Die cut the pale pink cardstock with the Lucy Label Pop Up die, and emboss it with the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder.

5. Adhere two thin strips of pale pink cardstock (4.5'' x 0.25'') to near the top and bottom borders of the card, and adhere two 4.5'' lengths of black ric-rac, overlapping the pale pink strips slightly.

6. Adhere a 4.5'' length of bright pink pom pom trim, just below the ric-rac nearest the top of the card.

Purple Onion Designs recently released a new Stacey Yacula collection of stamps which is mainly what I used here. If you haven't seen them already, I would recommend having a look at them - they are just gorgeous!!

I stamped and cut out various parts of the design to layer up, then coloured some of the details with white Uniball pen.

Monday, 19 May 2014

Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog for this month is 'Fly' - however we want to interpret it! I have probably gone for the least original option, but I've had the thought of wanting to make the Butterfly Pivot Card die into the centre of a swathe of butterflies for a while now, so here's my card.

I just started with a plain pink cardstock background, with plain pink strips down the back/front of the card to infill the gaps created by the Butterfly Pivot die.

I added border strips of patterned paper with shaped edges, and swirls from the Agatha Edges set.

Monday, 12 May 2014

Hello everyone! I'm on the Elizabeth Craft Design Blog today, sharing with you an accordion card. Ever since I first came across Elizabeth Craft Designs, I had my eye on the Nesting Doll Peel-Offs, thinking that they would be fun to have a go at colouring one day. Well, I finally got round to it, and thoroughly enjoyed myself!

Directions:

1. Cut out some double-sided adhesive, large enough for a nesting doll peel-off, and stick one side of it onto white card stock.

2. Stick a nesting doll peel-off sticker to the other side of the double sided adhesive.

4. Colour the nesting doll with Copic pens, and add highlights with White Enamel Accents. Set aside to dry.

5. Cut out the nesting doll.

6. Use the Accordion Oval Card die set, and Oval Flourish Frame Edges to cut out the pieces as shown below. For the gingham frames, cut out full Accordion Oval panels, snip out the centre parts, and trim off extra tabs.

7. Also die cut a ‘Get Well Soon’, two of the smallest leaves from the Triple Leaf set, and a heart which is also from the Accordion Oval Card die set.

8. Adhere the Flourish Frame edges with a glue pen, and adhere the rest of the big pieces with a glue runner.

9. Adhere the words and leaves with a glue pen, and the doll and heart on foam pads.

10. Finally, add some more White Enamel Accents in between the die cut stitches on the turquoise oval panel.

I hope you have enjoyed this card! Why not have another look at Elizabeth Craft Design’s wonderful range of Peel-Off Stickers, and see if any catch your eye?!

Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Well today sees the release of some new stamps sets at The Stamps of Life, including the one I used here - patterns4sandals. The club set flipflops2stamp/sandals4summer was released last week, and this new set co-ordinates wonderfully with it!

For my first card, I used the accompanying dies, and a sentiment from patterns4sandals.

My second card is a Stand-ups card, using some of the the great patterned flip-flop stamps.

Thursday, 1 May 2014

The Stamps of Life club set this first of the month is such a fun set! It's called flipflop2stamp, and comes with a great pair of flip-flops and lots of summery/beachy accessories (one of my favourites being the lovely little starfish, which seemed to sneak its way onto every card!)

Here's my first card, using the Square Framelits Flip-its die for the card and layers, and the new dies which accompany the sandals4summer set, including those great waves!

And the flip side of the card...

I made use of the waves again for my second card, plus used one of the Talk Bubble Dies.

I've been married to Scott for 21 years, am mum to 4 great kids, including one with Type 1 Diabetes, who is currently serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I'm also an On-Call Fire Fighter. I love making things with the craft supplies which are crammed into the drawers in my dining room...
I have liked papercrafts my whole life, started quilting in 2010, and making cupcakes in 2011.